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ArticleCancer control : journal of the Moffitt Cancer Center

Special Collection on Ecological and Evolutionary Approaches to Cancer Control: Cancer Finds a Conceptual Home.

Christopher J Whelan, Robert A Gatenby

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Article in Cancer control : journal of the Moffitt Cancer Center. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Christopher J WhelanCancer Biology and Evolution Program, Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, Tampa, FL, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7511-2603
Robert A GatenbyCancer Biology and Evolution Program, Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, Tampa, FL, USA.

Funding

"Research Supplement to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research", as part of Moffitt PS-OC, "Cancer as a Complex adaptive System"U54CA193489 · NCI · H. LEE MOFFITT CANCER CTR & RES INST · PI ANDERSON, ALEXANDER ROBERTSON ALLAN, GATENBY, ROBERT A · 2015 to 2020
$12.5M
NCI NIH HHS U54 CA193489
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Despite a century of intense investigation, cancer biology and treatment remain plagued by unanswered questions. Even basic questions regarding the fundamental forces driving the formation of cancer remain controversial. Recent approaches view cancer in the context of a complex web of interactions among cancer cells of the tumor, together with their interactions with the many cells and constituents of the complex and highly dynamic tumor microenvironment. As seen in this special collection, we believe that viewing cancer as a process of evolution driven by ongoing ecological processes playing out within a dynamic environment offers many insights and potential new pathways for cancer control.

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Biological EvolutionEcosystemHumansNeoplasmsPublicationsTumor Microenvironmentcoexistenceecologyecosystem engineeringevolutioninformationlandscape ecologymathematical modelingmetastatic managementstorage effect

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PMID33054362
PMCPMC7791469

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